XDM/XSM - not getting proper X environment

Ryan Daly daly at ctc.com
Thu Jan 18 21:54:36 UTC 2007


On 01/18/07 16:41, Ray Strode wrote:
> Each gnome-terminal tab/window is associated with a separate
> pseudo-terminal (/dev/pts/something).  Is that what you mean?  

Yes.

> Or are you referring to utmp entries? What program are you running?

I'm running xterm's (with -ls).  I'm used to seeing the following...

daly at linux13 <597#> w
 16:51:01 up 34 days,  7:36, 56 users,  load average: 1.10, 0.47, 0.38
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
daly     pts/7    -                15Dec06  9days  0.13s 23.21s xterm
-font 7x13 -ls -bg black -fg yellow -sb -sl 500 -geometry

...but am now seeing this.

daly at joker <7#> w
 16:51:01 up 34 days,  7:36, 56 users,  load average: 1.10, 0.47, 0.38
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
daly     :0       -                 16:28    ?xdm? 3.95s  0.01s -:0


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